The Longest Wait

by Grace James

A young Pacific Island woman's true coming-of-age story takes the reader from a vanishing small island state to rural Philippine villages and ends in an American jail.







She and other detainees share a life inside walls few have ever entered. Narratives of survival, rooted faiths stronger than the concrete that incarcerates them, will shock, awe, and inspire the reader as the women wait for their cases to be heard.







Icons for all domestic violence survivors, faith followers, and humanitarians working towards a more globally just society, these women are the faces of today's American asylees.

Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2024

About the author

Grace Edith Marion James (1882–1965) was an English writer, born in Tokyo. She was both an author of children's literature and a Japanese folklorist.

Her Japanese Fairy Tales (1910) collected and retold stories from the Japanese folk tradition. It was illustrated by Warwick Goble.

Reviews

[Kelly Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A timely book given the current US administration's more anti-immigration stance. This is an inside account of someone who made the brave decision to leave her abusive husband and seek asylum (to stay legally in the US) and detained for a year in jail. Grace is a great role model for staying positive and doing the best you can in the circumstances you are in, and we can all learn a lot from that. The US should accept her application for asylum and we should be happy to have her as a citizen (not even to mention the fact that our country's heavy role in climate change will likely flood her country of Kiribati to unliveable conditions within the next 100 years).